Cultivating an Abundant Garden WHERE VOLTAIRE WENT WRONG BY GRACE BENNEYWORTH
“Candide,” a French novella teeming with satire, subverted ideals of the institutions of the Enlightenment era when François-Marie Arouet published the piece in 1759. Arouet, also known by his nom de plume Voltaire, was a famous critic of the French monarchy’s infamously enforced nobility and religious dogma. Voltaire rejected these ideals and delivered a message of personal preservation through his novel.
